Once, Europe’s car industry was the envy of the world. Stuttgart, Wolfsburg, and Paris set the pace in automotive innovation. Now, as Chinese manufacturers roll out cheap LFP batteries and software-defined vehicles, Europe’s giants are left scrambling, warn NGO Transport & Environment.

The colonial lens shapes how Europe responds to the Palestinian struggle. By framing Gaza solely as a humanitarian crisis, rather than recognising it as the outcome of decades of Israeli occupation and apartheid, EU leaders have sought to sanitise and depoliticise Palestinian suffering, writes Shada Islam.

EU member state negotiators agreed to scale back the Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), limiting it to corporate giants with at least 5,000 staff and €1.5bn in turnover. Only six member states have companies large enough to fall under the revised law: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Spain.

Legal scholars have dubbed it a "sleeping beauty" — a potent yet practically unused EU Parliament instrument akin to the EU's own Article 7, designed to safeguard the rule of law and the integrity of its institutions.

Today, we kick off an anniversary campaign to convince new supporting members to join EUobserver's mission of providing the information citizens need to safeguard EU democracy.

Russian spies are still active in the EU capital and have a "higher risk appetite" than before the Ukraine war — despite Belgium's efforts to push back against their plots.